Brewery Creek Study

Historic Development Topography Street Pattern Green Space Land Parcels Built Form Historic Features

Site Brewery Creek / Rue Montcalm area, Hull, Quebec
Objective Prepare design proposals for the future form, structure and order of the Rue Montcalm and Brewery Creek corridor, respecting the architectural heritage of the Chateau d'Eau, Theatre d'lle, and the Scott-Hadley House; respecting the residential precinct along Front Street and respecting the history and evolution of the area.
Concept A Layer of Future
A site is a theater, a theater of dream, of all the invented and forgotten, and all that which might or ought to be. One great meaning of symbolism, according to Freud, is the power of condensation of the Dream. Through the dislocation of events into another setting, memory has been evoked over all directions. We can examine the city and read the layers of its past. We can extend its existence into the future. We can visualize what it might become. Our examination of the city today reveals layers of patterns by which we interpret the past and transform it into the future.
Brewery Creek is such a site, despite its trivial position in the city of Hull. It discloses secrecy of the forgotten civilization that can, by no means be rediscovered, therefore, must be reinvented. The future of the urban fabric must grow from what precedes it. Its form, structure, and order must be both new and old, finding its essence in what already exists. Each new layer is a child of the past making the future more complex than the past.
Strategy
Adopting the city grid pattern on the east bank of the Brewery Creek and extending it to the west of Rue Montcalm by imposing a megastructure on site and reinventing the function of the Chateau d'Eau, Theatre d'lle, the Scott-Hadley House. There will be ten follies/'footprints', with multivalent functions, on both sides of the Brewery Creek to mark future development of the megastructure
A megastructure in accordance with the adjacent city grids introduced to the site over the Montcalm Street in order to reconcile both the east and the west sides of the street and initiate a dialogue between the old and the new layers of the city grid. This structure will accommodate functions such as shopping mall, food court and office space.
Using the megastructure to divide the east bank of Brewery Creek into 3 different plazas as well as giving the new function / programs on the east bank of the Brewery Creek: amphitheater, outdoor market place, docking area.

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Historic Development	Topography	Street Pattern	Green Space	Land Parcels	Built Form	Historic Features

*Site*		Brewery Creek / Rue Montcalm area, Hull, Quebec

*Objective*		Prepare design proposals for the future form, structure and order of the Rue Montcalm and Brewery Creek corridor, respecting the architectural heritage of the Chateau d'Eau, Theatre d'lle, and the Scott-Hadley House; respecting the residential precinct along Front Street and respecting the history and evolution of the area.

*Concept*		A Layer of Future A site is a theater, a theater of dream, of all the invented and forgotten, and all that which might or ought to be. One great meaning of symbolism, according to Freud, is the power of condensation of the Dream. Through the dislocation of events into another setting, memory has been evoked over all directions. We can examine the city and read the layers of its past. We can extend its existence into the future. We can visualize what it might become. Our examination of the city today reveals layers of patterns by which we interpret the past and transform it into the future. Brewery Creek is such a site, despite its trivial position in the city of Hull. It discloses secrecy of the forgotten civilization that can, by no means be rediscovered, therefore, must be reinvented. The future of the urban fabric must grow from what precedes it. Its form, structure, and order must be both new and old, finding its essence in what already exists. Each new layer is a child of the past making the future more complex than the past.

*Strategy*		Adopting the city grid pattern on the east bank of the Brewery Creek and extending it to the west of Rue Montcalm by imposing a megastructure on site and reinventing the function of the Chateau d'Eau, Theatre d'lle, the Scott-Hadley House. There will be ten follies/'footprints', with multivalent functions, on both sides of the Brewery Creek to mark future development of the megastructure A megastructure in accordance with the adjacent city grids introduced to the site over the Montcalm Street in order to reconcile both the east and the west sides of the street and initiate a dialogue between the old and the new layers of the city grid. This structure will accommodate functions such as shopping mall, food court and office space. Using the megastructure to divide the east bank of Brewery Creek into 3 different plazas as well as giving the new function / programs on the east bank of the Brewery Creek: amphitheater, outdoor market place, docking area.